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The Vatican shows off Sistine Chapel via Flash
This may not be big news for some of our more religious readers, but it's certainly a nice surprise for me. I just found out that the Vatican has a very detailed, three dimensional, Flash tour of the Sistine Chapel. There's nothing new about the technology itself, but the implementation is very good. In fact, it's so good that I suspect parts of it may be rendered rather than actually photographed (look at the balcony in the screenshot -- is that a render or a photo?).
At any rate, it's a great find. I don't know if I'll ever get to visit the chapel itself, but being able to look around in such great detail and zoom in on the different artwork certainly puts it in perspective for me. It makes me want to go there even more. This is a great move on the Vatican's part. Maybe in the future, they'll do something with Microsoft Photosynth.
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Subscribe to commentshumberto aguayoMar 23rd 2010 6:16PM
here you have ;)
http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=0480077d-9770-402f-9dca-21d08b4bf5b5
AtomFuryMar 23rd 2010 6:23PM
Funny that this comes up, I visited the Vatican and 'La Cappela Sistina' while I was there. One of the most amazing pieces of art I've ever seen.
dmitr77Mar 23rd 2010 10:23PM
I think a simple 3d model was probably made on which photos of the actual paintings where place. Similar to how models of Google earth made in sketch up work.
David S. (@seemsArtless)Mar 26th 2010 12:47PM
Wow, that's really a great start! Interesting that they included the modern lights, and over-blown sections around the windows... The krpano - Flash Panorama Viewer does a great job (other than being Flash rather than based on a more modern, standards-based cross browser technology).
Hopefully the Vatican will make use of the available hot-spot feature to help us drill down (drill up?) for more information on the various sections of the Chapel.